John S. Baras

Research Interests

• Dynamics of distributed networks, including MANETs, sensor networks and P2P networks;
• Security in Wireless Networks.

Publications

• Tao Jiang and John S. Baras, Graph Algebraic Interpretation of Trust Establishment in Autonomic Networks, submitted to Wiley Journal of Networks, May 2005, under review.
• J. S. Baras and T. Jiang, "Cooperation, Trust and Games in Wireless Networks", book chapter in Advances in Control, Communication Networks, and Transportation Systems: In Honor of Pravin Varaiya, E.H. Abed (Ed.), Systems and Control: Foundations and Applications Series, Birkhauser, Boston, 2005.
• T. Jiang, Helen Wang, and Yih-chun Hu, "Location Privacy in Wireless Networks", to submit to MobiSys’06.
• Tao Jiang and John S. Baras, Trust Evaluation in Anarchy: A Case Study on Autonomous Networks, Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Computer Communications, Barcelona, Spain, April 23-29, 2006.
• T. Jiang, P. Xu, P. A. Abshire, and J. S. Baras, "Solving Optimal Neural Layout by Gibbs Sampling", in Proceedings of 7th Computational Intelligence and Natural Computing (CINC), 2005, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Tao Jiang and John S. Baras, Autonomous Trust Establishment, Proceedings of 2nd International Network Optimization Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, April 2005.
• Z. Yu, C. Seng, T. Jiang, X. Wu, and W. A. Arbaugh, "Robust Routing in Malicious Environment for Ad Hoc Networks", in Proceedings of ISPEC, 2005.
• Baras, J.S.and Tao Jiang, Cooperative games, phase transitions on graphs and distributed trust in MANET, Proceedings of 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas, 14-17 Dec. 2004.
• J. S. Baras and T. Jiang, "Dynamic and Distributed Trust For Mobile Ad-hoc Networks", in Proceedings of 24th Army Science Conference, 2004, Orlando, FL.
• Jiang, T. and Baras, J.S., Ant-based adaptive trust evidence distribution in MANET, Proceedings of 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Tokyo, Japan, March 23-26, 2004.

Internships

• June 2006 - Aug. 2006 Systems & Networking Research Group, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA

Contact Information

Office Address:

AVW 2239
A.V. Williams Building 115
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland 20742.
Phone: 301 - 405 - 4988

Email: tjiang@nospam.umd.edu - Please remove "nospam." from email address

Personal Webpage: http://www.glue.umd.edu/~tjiang/